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Compass Box The Peat Monster (Classic Brown Label)
Blended Malt — Scotland
Reviewed
March 2, 2017 (edited November 19, 2019)
I'd already thought about the start of this narrative before I even drank this whisky. Peat Monster..does it live up to its name? I had a feeling no and I was right. It wasn't the full in your face peat experience its name suggests but despite that I wasn't disappointed. Ledaig 10ish I thought so let's put them head to head. Interesting..the Ledaig 10 had greater intensity but what I found surprising was I got more complexity and less harshness (prob not that surprisingly as Ledaig isn't the smoothest drop) from the Compass Box and it was newly opened. What it did come down to is what did I prefer. Peat Monster by a head. It's making me question the 4 rating I gave the Ledaig 10 now
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I definitely do love the Ledaig 10. Had another drop tonight and it went down a treat. Will have to open the bottle of the 18 year i have and compare sometime soon with both the peat monster and the 10.
For me the Ledaig is so much more complex that it's not about the peat anymore. Peat Monster is good in its own right, and I enjoy it, but it doesn't challenge me like the Lediag does. Ledaig makes me work to find what's remaining in the glass, and it does so in a way that I'm only too happy to oblige. Very few drams do that for me, and it's only because I'm a peat-head who loved the original Laphroaig 15yr and adores Octomore that I rated Ledaig a 4 instead of a 5.